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10501588785Modern humans that originated in a small region of Africa 200,000 years agoHomo sapien0
10501590985Some of the biggest breakthroughs of migration out of AfricaDomestication of plants and animals Creation of settled agriculture1
10501601959Application of human labor and tools to a fixed plot of land for more than one growing cycle.Settled agriculture2
10501602841Settled AgricultureThe changeover from a hunting-gathering lifestyle to one based in agriculture, which requires staying in one place until the soil has been exhausted.3
10501618130Animal DomesticationGradual process that occurred simultaneously with or just before the domestication of plants, depending on the region4
10501630757Creation NarrativesNarratives constructed by different cultures that draw on their belief systems and available evidence to explain the origins of the world and humanity.5
105016423643 different groups of hominidsPresent day gorillas, chimpanzees, and modern day humans.6
10501645399EvolutionIs the process by which species of plants and animals change and develop over generations, as certain traits are favored in reproductions7
10501652221AustralopithecinesExisted not only in Southern Africa but in the north as well.8
10501655185Raymond DartDiscovered the pint-sized skull and bones of a creature that had both ape-like and human-like features.9
10501659684AdaptationThe ability to alter behavior and to innovate, finding new ways of doing something.10
105016659443 million years of Hominids of evolutionBrains doubled in size; their foreheads became more elongated; their jaws became less massive; and they took on a much more human look.11

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